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TIL Neanderthals built circular structures from stalactites and stalagmites deep within a cave around 176,000 years ago.

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LQDoZ TIL Chris Farley spent his last night with a hooker named Heidi. She could hear his breathing trouble after he collapsed 10 feet from the door. He asked "Don't leave me." but she left after taking a photo of him (to sell likely)
KY8vE TIL the Gibson guitar that Peter Frampton played on his 1976 album “Frampton Comes Alive!”, was lost for 32 years after the guitar was put on a cargo plane that crashed. The guitar ended up being owned by a musician on a Caribbean island, before a collector spotted it and contacted Frampton in 2012.
Nej6 TIL that in the time it takes to wink, an Olympic sprinter could cover 3-4 meters.
GJNg TIL Lockheed Skunkworks is working on SR-72, the successor to the legendary SR-71, with a speed of Mach 6 and powered by a radical new engine which combines the features of a turbine and a scramjet.
4XpD5 TIL that 90% of the plastic in the oceans come from just 10 rivers. 8 are in Asia and 2 are in Africa.There are the Yangtze, Indus, Yellow, Hai He, Ganges, Pearl, Amur and Mekong in Asia and the Nile and the Niger in Africa